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Steel & concrete modular homes in Massachusetts
Modular homes are built to state and local building codes and set on a permanent foundation. Here is what applies in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts program
- Administering agency
- Board of Building Regulations and Standards (BBRS) and its designee Office
- Program / authority
- 780 CMR 110.R3 Manufactured Buildings (modular homes and components); 780 CMR 35
- Code basis
- 780 CMR (Massachusetts State Building Code); cross-references 780 CMR 13 (energy) and 34 (existing buildings)
- Inspection & seal
- Products must be approved and certified under 110.R3; BBRS-registered third-party inspection agencies (TPIAs) are retained by manufacturers to inspect.
- Good to know
- Certified product may be sold and installed anywhere in the Commonwealth subject to local zoning ordinances and by-laws; HUD homes are excluded.
- Official source
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/massachusetts/780-CMR-110-R3
Summarised from public sources; rules change. Confirm with Massachusetts’s agency and your local building department before ordering.
Your project in Massachusetts
Step 1
Confirm zoning & permits
Local jurisdiction sets lot, setback and design rules. See Permits & Zoning.
Step 2
Plans reviewed to state code
We stamp plans for the code that applies in Massachusetts.
Step 3
Factory build & inspection
Third-party or state inspection happens in the factory, then final on site.
Step 4
Set, connect, certify
Modules crane in, joints are torqued and inspected, and local sign-off issues the CO.